Pest of small ruminants:
Need to broaden the focus

The pest of small ruminants is a good candidate for global disease eradication, but probably not the next target. Some caution against focusing on one pathogen at a time, warning there's a need to address multiple diseases at once to break the single-focus precedent set by the eradication of rinderpest. [...]

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Investigating the role of bats in emerging zoonoses: Balancing ecology, conservation and public health interests [PDF]

International Meeting on Health Risks at the Human-Animal-Ecosystems Interface. FAO will participate in an international meeting on "Health Risks at the Human-Animal-Ecosystems Interfaces." Animal influenzas, antimicrobial resistance and rabies will be used as a basis for discussions on how international coordination and response have improved to safeguard human health and livelihoods by tackling disease threats at source: where humans, animals, and ecosystems meet... [...]